THE Palmwoods New Residents Information Kit Folder was released on March 15, a project of the Palmwoods Progress Association (PPA), supported by 20 business houses, in the form of advertising on the folder.

The kit contains information from a wide range of organisations such as Maroochy Shire Council, Palmwoods State School, Palmwoods Memorial Hall Committee, Palmwoods Swimming Club, Palmwoods Arts & Craft Association, Palmwoods Residents & Ratepayers Association, Palmwoods Progress Association, just to name a few. The folder is being delivered to recent new residents and will be available to all new residents through the Palmwoods Post Office, Bill Ellis First National Real Estate and Palmwoods Real Estate offices on request at no charge.

The kit folder has been generously accepted by the community and the local media as a "first of its kind’’ on the Sunshine Coast and promotes Palmwoods as ‘Your piece of Paradise on the Sunshine Coast’.

PPA flag: Last year, January 1998, the PPA struck its own flag which was flown at the Australia Day Kolora Park Celebration, distinctively in green and gold and this year at the Australia Day Kolora Park Celebration produced Flag Wavers again in green and gold with the inscription of ‘PROUD TO BE PALMWOODS founded 1881. A PIECE OF PARADISE ON THE SUNSHINE COAST’.

Meeting update: Our last meeting in March approval was given to striking a PPA Oval Disk to be placed at the entry statement at each end of the town in green and gold with the words ‘Palmwoods Progress Association Inc. Established 1902’.

A sub committee has been formed to market the PPA Project 2000 Memorial Shelter to be constructed in the centre of town with Inscribed Floor Tiles to be set down as the flooring for the Shelter, the project will be self-funding and residents will be able to buy a tile for $100 ($20 deposit).

The Project 2000 Committee will take the project to the people and throughout Australia through various media to find early Pioneer Family descendants who would want to participate in this everlasting tribute. Those who wish to book or buy a tile can contact Roger Brooke on 54450213 or pick up an application order form from the Palmwoods Post Office or the Palmwoods District News office in Kolora Place, Margaret Street. Another exciting project underway deals with the early history of the Palmwoods locomotive Train (engines), more about this at our next meeting and next month’s Newsletter.

Train Buffs where are you?? Contact our Trevor Robinson 5445 9081. Finally work has begun on the PPA’s Commemoration Historical Magazine to be published at the turn of the century, the year 2000, covering the period from 1881 through to 2000.